The Mark 1 computer is developed by Harvard graduate Howard H. Aiken at IBM in the early 1940s. Officially known as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), the machine can add or subtract two numbers in three-tenths of a second, multiply them in four seconds, and divide them in ten seconds. The computer is 50 [...]
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Back to the Future..
October 30, 2008Quote of the day…10-07-08
October 7, 2008It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.
Wide open
October 2, 2008Today is wide open. It does not have to be like yesterday, or any other day.
Today is opportunity. It is a canvas upon which your choices and your actions can create a valuable and unique masterpiece.
Paint vividly and passionately upon that canvas. Do something good and useful, valuable, exciting, inspiring and fulfilling with the magnificent [...]
Friendship
September 27, 2008One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
Clifton Fadiman
Quote of the day…9.23.08
September 23, 2008The earth and the sand are burning. Put your face on the burning sand and on the earth of the road, since all those who are wounded by love must have the imprint on their face, and the scar must be seen. Let the scar of the heart be seen, for by their scars are [...]
Quote of the day..9.22.08
September 22, 2008Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.”
A friend like you
is like a precious gem…
hard to find…
difficult to part with
and treasured forever.
To a friend who’s always close to my heart!
Quote of the day..9.21.08
September 21, 2008“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”
Quote of the Day..9.20.08
September 20, 2008In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
Quote of the day..9.19.08
September 19, 2008There is no better oppurtunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the oppurtunity for ideas to flow yor way. Jim Rohn
